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It took me about 2 months since I was using both. But if you can score 85% on the diagnostic and benchmark exams in knopman without memorizing the answers, you should be fine. Same for STC

 

Prepped for the SIE in about a week using Knopman. Consistently was high 70s low 80s on the practice exams. Actual exam wasn’t bad at all compared to Knopman

 

I think knopman was very good. In some ways their tests are harder than the exam. But the video lectures and the book are very good.  I'd watch the videos first, then read the chapter. Then do the tests at the end of each chapter. Follow the action plan they give you. I put in about 4 hrs a day on knopman Alone. But STC was given to me by my firm. So I used both. If you don't have a financial background, you're gonna need time to digest all the material. It's a lot,  but doable. The test is pretty similar to the diagnostic and benchmark exams in Knopman. You really need to understand the material though..Good luck!!

 
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I’ll piggyback, Just passed the exam today via a virtual test.

I used STC and studied for just over 2 weeks, while working full time. This involved 5 full days of studying (ie weekends where I could solely focus on studying), and then waking up early and staying up late during the week.

Study approach: I read the entire book and highlighted key points, then went back through using the On demand lecture SLIDES ONLY and took detailed notes on the slides. I took each chapters quiz, and then each of the quarterly progress exams. Then I took 3 full practice exams via STC, scored in the low 80s, then took the full FINRA practice exam and scored low 90s. Booked the exam the night before and took it the next day, passed.

In relation to the On demand lectures, id say you need to consider how you study best. The lectures add 20+ hours to your study time, and since j don’t learn well from them, I just decided to skip it, or only listen to points of lectures I wanted clarification on.

Overall: lots of material but nothing is really hard. Feel like I’ve seen a lot of the stuff by working with broker dealers, so maybe that’s why it was easier....but it’s not that hard and getting a 70% is pretty easy... you could probably read through the material one time and then go straight to practice exams and get a 70% as long as the info is fresh

 

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